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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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Image and Misreporting
Ewers, Mara; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
experiment. In the experiment, all subjects go through a series of quiz questions and subsequently report a performance measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279286
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Students' Academic Self-Perception
Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their own and other’s ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Among high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763481
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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125865
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592862
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703180
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703287
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822726
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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822784
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Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation
Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
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